Race and Guns in a Divided America, with Carol Anderson and Mark Mardell

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Throughout history, the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States has protected the right to bear arms. For Black Americans, this has come with the understanding that the moment they exercise this right (or the moment that they don't), their life - as surely as the lives of Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor - may be snatched away in a single, fateful second. In this week's podcast historian Carol Anderson speaks to Mark Mardell about her new book The Second, illuminating the history and impact of the Second Amendment: from the seventeenth century, when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own, carry or use a firearm, to today, where measures to expand and curtail gun ownership continue to limit the freedoms and power of Black Americans. To buy the book click here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-second/carol-anderson/9781526633682 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.1	about an Intelligence Square event I'm doing with the classicist author and
0:50.2	broadcaster Mary Beard. Together we'll be discussing politics and power from
0:54.9	the Caesars to Sunak, who gets to win par, who is excluded, does power always
1:00.1	corrupt or other examples of leaders who've maintained their integrity while
1:04.2	an authority. And how does the nature of power vary across different times and
1:08.5	cultures? These are just some of the questions that Mary and I will be trying to
1:12.1	answer. In person tickets are now sold out, but you can still watch online on
1:16.6	13th November at 7 p.m. BST. Put your questions first live as we discuss power
1:22.0	and politics down the ages. Hello podcast listeners, I'm Connor and welcome to
1:26.3	this week's episode of Intelligence Square. Today we're joined by Karl Andersen.
1:30.1	She's a historian and professor of African American studies at Emory University.
1:34.5	And she spoke to Mark Mardel all about how the Second Amendment and the right to
1:38.9	bear arms has meant different things. If you are black or white, they trace back
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